Stephanie Wesley

More than 1,000 people gathered on Parliament Hill for a protest on May 14 for the National Day of Resistance, with protests also being held in several cities and towns nation-wide.
Grand Council Treaty #3 member Tania Cameron was at the protest with Wabauskang First Nation Chief Leslie Cameron and Treaty 3 member Jo-Anne Petiquan-Moore.
Tania Cameron said they were in Ottawa for the Keewatin appeal with Grassy Narrows First Nation at the Supreme Court, and had learned prior to heading to Ottawa that there would be a protest at Parliament Hill.

Long Lake #58 First Nation sisters Natasha and Hannah Fisher will be performing at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) this July in Regina.
“It’s pretty exciting,” Natasha said. “We feel really privileged just to go there and represent our community and this territory.”
Natasha, 18, and Hannah, 24, have been involved in music their whole lives but have been “taking it seriously” together for the past four years.
Natasha is a vocalist. As a child, she sang in a choir and later began taking vocal lessons at the age of 14.

Sioux Lookout’s Michael Dube recently launched his first illustrated children’s book, titled My Dad, The Snow Plow Man.
“It’s been a story in my head for years, and with my dad getting older and now my son in my life, I thought it was about time to make this vision a reality,” Dube said.
The book tells the story of a young boy’s adventures with his dad while plowing the roads.
My Dad, The Snow Plow Man features some illustrated landmarks from Dubes youth such as Highway 105 near Ear Falls. The new author was raised in Ear Falls and Rainy River.

It’s been a strange few months.
To be honest, part of me doesn’t feel like acknowledging what has happened in a column because I feel like it’s been addressed enough on social media, but this isn’t social media.
This is a column in a newspaper, it’s not something that is posted instantaneously online in a blog or on a Facebook status update.
There is a huge responsibility on my part for what I write in this paper, this column. I would never write anything inappropriate, I wouldn’t try painting any one subject, or a race of people, with one brush.